ADVANCED ADVENTURER Exploration, Excitement, Experiences.

The Advanced Adventurer Course with TEXAS DIVE CENTER

Exploration, Excitement, Experiences. They're what the Advanced Adventurer course is all about. And no, you don't have to be “advanced” to take it – it's designed so you can go straight into it after the Open Water Diver course.

The Advanced Adventurer course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your professional Instructor. This course builds on what you've learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

An introduction to three more specialty areas of your choice but we highly recommend learning more about computers, nitrox, and buyoancy.

The Fun Part: Your Choice

One reason you'll love the Advanced Adventurer course is that you and your instructor choose from many types of dives to complete your course as mentioned above.

Prerequisites

To take this course, you must be:

A Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

15 years old (10 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

Have completed 24 logged dives by the end of the course.

What You Learn

The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Adventurer course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include:

Practical aspects of deep diving

Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving.

More ways to use your underwater compass.

How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time

How to better use your dive computer and dive planning slates.

And much, much more, depending on the dive training you choose

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use all the basic scuba gear including your underwater compass. Depending on which five dives you pick, you may also be introduced to underwater photography equipment , a dive light, lift bags, a dive flag/float or other specialty gear.

The Learning Materials You Need

Complete digital training will be available to you for the choices for your knowledge development are included with your course. You'll use them as a guidebook to improve your diving skills and prepare for new experiences and adventures.